Robert K. von Weizsäcker

Robert Klaus Freiherr von Weizsäcker ( born December 6, 1954) is Professor of Economics at the Technical University of Munich and Honorary President of the German Chess Federation. This comes from the Palatine- Württemberg Weizsäcker family and is the eldest son of the former Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker and his wife Marianne.

Life

Von Weizsäcker studied mathematics and economics at the University of Bonn. After graduating with a degree in economics in 1980, the PhD at the London School of Economics / University of Bonn in 1985 and the Habilitation at the University of Bonn was made in 1990.

After two years as a lecturer at the University of Bonn and the Humboldt University of Berlin Robert von Weizsäcker in 1992 full professor of economics at the University of Halle -Wittenberg. In 1995 he moved to the University of Mannheim on a chair in economics, public finance and economic policy. After the rejection of a call in 2001 to the Goethe University in Frankfurt since 2003 he is Professor of Economics, Finance and Industrial Economics at the Technical University of Munich.

He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge, Université Catholique de Louvain, the London School of Economics, Stanford University, the University of Oxford and at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC From 2003 to 2007 he was a Faculty Member of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, and from 1994 to 2004 Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London. He is a Research Fellow of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich and the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn. He was a Heisenberg Fellow of the German Research Foundation from 1997 to 1999 Member of the Science Council.

Robert von Weizsäcker 's International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster and member of the German correspondence chess team ( team 2008 world champion, Olympic champion of the 13th Correspondence Chess Olympiad 2004-2009 in 2591 Elo in the second quarter of 2011 to the 65th place of the correspondence chess world ranking). From 2007 to 2011 he was President of the German Chess Federation, 2011, he opted not to run again. In 2010, Robert von Weizsäcker running for the job of President of the European Chess Union, but was not elected. When choosing the FIDE President in 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk, he supported the vain former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov against the incumbent president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.

Publications (selection)

  • Theory of the distribution of earnings; Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck ), 1986.
  • " Neoclassical Finance "; Finanzarchiv, N.F. Volume 46 (3 ), 1988, 513-525.
  • "Demographic Change and Income Distribution"; European Economic Review, 33 (3 ), 1989, 377-388.
  • "Population Aging and Social Security: A Politico - Economic Model of State Pension Financing "; Public Finance 45 (3 ), 1990, 491-509.
  • " Demography, Democracy, and Distribution "; In: J. Pacolet and C. Wilderom (ed.): The Economics of Care of the Elderly; London: Gower Publishing Co., 1991, 38-50.
  • " National debt and democracy "; Kyklos, 45 ( 1), 1992, 51-67.
  • "Income Distribution and Efficiency: The Role of Social Security "; with M. Nerlove, A. Razin and E. Sadka; Public Finance 47 (3 ), 1992, 462-475.
  • A Theory of Earnings Distribution; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
  • Demographics, pension funding and income distribution; Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer -Verlag, 1993.
  • "Comprehensive Income Taxation, Investments in Human and Physical Capital, and Productivity "; with M. Nerlove, A. Razin, E. Sadka; Journal of Public Economics, 50 ( 3 ), 1993, 397-406.
  • "Public Pension Reform, Demographics, and Inequality "; Journal of Population Economics, 8 ( 2 ), 1995, 205-221.
  • "Educational Choice, Lifetime Earnings Inequality, and Conflicts of Public Policy "; Journal of Income Distribution, 6 ( 1 ), 1996, 67-89.
  • " Distributive Implications of an Aging Society "; European Economic Review, 40 ( 4 ), 1996, 729-746.
  • " Financial policy "; In: J. von Hagen, PJJ Welfens, A. Börsch -Supan (ed.): Springer Handbook of Economics, Volume 2; Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer -Verlag, 1997, 123-180.
  • Education and economic growth (ed. ); Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1998.
  • Deregulation and financing of education (ed. ); Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1998.
  • "Equal opportunities, status mobility and public investment in education "; In: D. Timmermann (ed. ): Vocational training in a European perspective; Of the Association for Social Policy fonts, Society for Economic and Social Sciences, NF Volume 267; Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1999, 93-113.
  • " National debt, pension and education: future weaknesses of competitive democracy "; in: H.H. von Arnim (ed.): Adequate institutions: conditions for good and citizen-oriented policy;? Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1999, 103-131.
  • School and university organization (ed. ); Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2000.
  • Education and employment (ed. ); Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2001.
  • "Risk, Resources, and Education: Public Versus Private Financing of Higher Education "; with B. U. Wigger; IMF Staff Papers, 48 (3 ), 2001, 547-560.
  • "Education reform in democracy "; with A. Kemnitz; Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, 72 (2 ), 2003, 188-204.
  • "At the capital market -oriented valuation of non-listed companies "; In: P. Wollmert and others ( ed.): auditing and corporate monitoring; Dusseldorf: IDW - Verlag, 2003, 573-582.
  • "Pension funding and intergenerational justice: A growth- theoretical perspective "; with B.U. Wigger; In: M. Rose ( Ed.): Integrated control and social system; Berlin -Heidelberg -New York: Springer - Verlag, 2003, 437-459.
  • " The German Trade Fair Industry: A subsidy trap"; ifo Quick service, 58 (3 ), 2005, 7-10.
  • " Natural disasters: Insurance or state action? "; with C. Feilcke and B. Süßmuth; WISU, 35 ( 8 ), 2006, 1111-1116.
  • " Inefficiency in the German educational federalism "; with C. Amann and B. Süßmuth; in: N. Wohlgemuth (eds.): Work, Human Capital and Economic Policy; Economic writings, Volume 547; Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2006, 247-278.
  • "Income and Income Distribution"; in: W. Heun et al. (Ed.): Evangelical Staatslexikon; Stuttgart: Verlag W. carbon hammer, 2006, 425-431.
  • " On the Value of Money"; with B. Süßmuth; Informationes Theologiae Europae, 14, 2007, 161-175.
  • "Government Debt and the portfolios of the rich "; with B. Süßmuth; In: SP Jenkins, J. Micklewright (eds.): Inequality and Poverty Re - Examined; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, 268-283.
  • "Family: successful in the long run? "; with K. clutter; in: I. House Shop (ed.): Management at the cutting edge: strategies, concepts and methods, Volume 1: Business Management; Munich: TCW Transfer -Centrum, 2007, 71-83.
  • "Excessive budget deficits and the institutional design of the EU budget policy "; with C. Feilcke and B. Süßmuth; In: V. Ulrich and W. Ried (eds.): efficiency, quality and sustainability in health care; Baden -Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2007, 3-22.
  • " Representative democracy and public debt: A strategic disaster "; In: R. Th ​​construction and others ( ed.): On the reform of federal fiscal constitution in Germany; Baden -Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2008, 87-97.
  • " Regional Airports - Dream or Nightmare regional economic policy to inefficiency of the German airport being? "; with M. Steininger; In: Society for Regional Studies (ed.): Seminar Report 51; Heidelberg 2009, 93-125.
  • "Ratio, intuition and time "; Munich: mimeo, 2010.
  • The king plan; Stefan Kindermann; Hamburg: Random House, 2nd edition, 2013.
  • "Shooting Rampage and Maintenance of Campus Safety: An Incomplete Contracts Perspective"; with B. Süßmuth; Review of Law and Economics, 7, 2011, 573-600.
  • " Does inequality negative impact on economic growth? "; with Th Bredl and M. Horvath; WiSt, 41, 2012, 532-539.
  • " Forward and backward induction in strategic decisions "; with M. Sahm; WISU, 41 (11 ), 2012, 1494-1498.
  • " Cubic Cost Functions and Major Market Structures"; with O. Nikutowski and V. power; Journal of Economic Education, 44 ( 1), 2013.
  • " Income Distribution"; with M. Horvath; Gabler economy Encyclopedia, 18th Edition; Wiesbaden: Gabler Springer, 2013.
  • " National Accounts "; with M. Horvath; Gabler economy Encyclopedia, 18th Edition; Wiesbaden: Gabler Springer, 2013.
  • " The Idea of ​​Economic Laws: Some Considerations on Rationality, Historicity, and Objectivity in Economics"; with M. Horvath; European Review ( Academia Europaea, Cambridge University Press), 22, 2014.
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